Carex glacialis Mack.

En: glacier sedge, Newfoundland sedge
Fr: carex des glaces, carex de Terre-Neuve
IU: ivitsukak
Provincial Status: LN
Range: Arctic-alpine circumpolar; n-most Lab., S to w/nwNfld.; calc.

[=Carex glacialis Mack. var. terrae-novae (Fernald) B.Boivin]
[=Carex pedata Wahlenb. 1812, hom. illeg. hom., non L. 1763]
[=Carex terrae-novae Fernald (type: St. John Island, nwNfld.)]

[In insular Nfld., Carex glacialis is known from limestone barrens extending north from the Port au Port Peninsula along the coast of the Great Northern Peninsula (Bouchard et al., 1991).]

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